Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous